Category Archives: creativity

Writer Idea Synchros

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Trish and Rob

  Synchronicities sometimes surface in the oddest ways. A few months ago, I was uploading Lagoon, one of my backlist titles, to smashwords, and received a whole bunch of error messages. So I contacted the woman who had formatted the … Continue reading →

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Fiction Married to Fiction

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Trish and Rob

  from touchdrawing The other night in Rob’s meditation class, he said or did something that prompted me to think of Will Lansa, his Native American character. Will has now been featured in four books – Prophecy Rock, which won … Continue reading →

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Twins Suns, Revisited

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Trish and Rob

NASA illustration In January of this year, we did a post called Twin Suns.  To summarize, it’s about an experience we had before our daughter, Megan, was born. A recap: In the late 1980s, my parents, Rob and I went … Continue reading →

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Nica, Nika

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Trish and Rob

On Labor Day, our daughter Megan and I  visited three local animals shelters in search of border collies, retrievers, or Australian shepherds who needed a home. She has been talking for some time about getting a dog of her own … Continue reading →

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Synchros as Confirmations

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Old Town in Esperanza, Ecuador This post is about the synchronicity of dates – as confirmation. +++ In Esperanza, there’s a character named Wayra – Quechua for wind – who’s a shape shifter, the last of his kind. We meet … Continue reading →

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The Quake and Global Synchros

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Trish and Rob

On August 23, when we first saw the news about a 5.8 quake in Mineral, Virginia that was felt from Atlanta to Canada, we figured there had to be some synchros involved. Sure enough, the damage in Washington, D.C. was … Continue reading →

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The Three Crows and Sins of the Sinnin’

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Trish and Rob

This synchro comes from Gypsy. Her stories are usually layered and complex – not just one synchro, but several. This one is particularly strange! Gypsy has been traveling lately and was in Delaware when this one happened. +++ A few … Continue reading →

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Synchronicity’s GPS: The Shadow Trickster

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Trish and Rob

A Dali tapestry I was working on a chapter about shadow tricksters and creativity and Rob remarked that he didn’t understand how this archetype was related to creativity. I started thinking about that. If we look at our lives as … Continue reading →

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The Muse

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Back in the mid-1970s, I worked as a librarian and Spanish teacher at a juvenile detention facility – that’s a sanitized phrase for a prison. It was supposed to be a place for male juvenile offenders, but we had a … Continue reading →

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When our Stories Come True

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Trish and Rob

        Nancy Pickard wrote this piece for a writers’ blog, the lipstick chronicles. When I read it, I asked if we could repost it. It illustrates how creativity can tap into the future, how writers sometimes come … Continue reading →

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